Because we know you were conk out to love . This video features Piers Gibbon — a British explorer , author , and National Geographic TV show host — identify the head - shrinking process long perform bythe Shuar peopleof Ecuador and Peru .
Below is a quick recap of the unconscious process , also provided by Gibbon , in a late audience with the folks over atLife ’s Little Mysteries .
First stage , kill your opposition … and chop his head off , leaving a adequate amount of neck flapping underneath the head . Then , second microscope stage — utterly essential — you need to crush and remove the human skull , so you damp it up with rocks and tear it out of the neck opening and all of the brain matter and everything else . So you ’re result with , basically , a head bag .

This head bag is then boiled in H2O with , I suppose , herbs and spices added to tan it — like with leather — and that is effectively quail it in the same direction you would wither any leather if you boil it .
And then , what you really need to do is get out all of the last little second of fat tissue from … say , around the lips . You require to get free of that . And you use hot sand from the fire to get rid of those . So you push it into the fountainhead , and get rid of all the fatty tissue paper … and then force that out .
Then , you have to tailor up the eyes and the sass so that the psyche of your vanquished enemy can not see you and can not call for vengeance .

Then you have win .
somewhat gruesome . Also pretty awesome .
[ spotty onLife ’s Little Mysteries ]

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